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Knowing Is a Kind of Pain: An Interview with Vaddey Ratner
Vaddey Ratner on memory, narrative history, and storytelling as a means of survival.
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Coffee Corner
Bushra al-Maqtari on how Sana’a, Yemen, has changed. Translated by Sawad Hussain.
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Nadine Anne Hura (Ngāti Hine, Ngāpuhi) on climate, making time, and making people listen.
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Our editorial on forthcoming work in PEN Transmissions.
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Françoise Vergès discusses decolonial feminism, free expression, Reunion and white feminism.
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Corinne Fowler on how writers and writing explore the colonial histories of the English countryside.
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Dulce Maria Cardoso on ageing. Translated by Ángel Gurría-Quintana.
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Fido Nesti on adapting Nineteen Eighty-Four into a graphic novel in the shadow of Brazilian populism.
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Sophie Lewis on translating Noémi Lefebvre.
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Omid Tofighian and Behrouz Boochani tell the story of Bangladeshi refugee Spicy – across borders, seas and prisons.
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Kikuko Tsumura on making masks work. Translated by Polly Barton.
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El Salvador’s Claudia Hernández on war, women, and burning. Translated by Julia Sanches.
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Ecuadorean Mauro Javier Cárdenas discusses radical grammar, Spanish, and US politics.
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Robert Jones, Jr. on discovering he was not the only Black, queer member of his family.
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Steven Hall on thirteen years between novels, parent-children relationships, and full stops.
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Nayrouz Qarmout writes about Edinburgh, Gaza, short stories, and packing her bag.
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Mia Couto discusses colonialism, Covid-19 and silence.
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Danish writer Tine Høeg discusses line breaks, desire and and narrative puzzles.
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Pilar Quintana and Lisa Dillman, author and translator of PEN Translates award-winning The Bitch, are interviewed by the English PEN Membership from their homes in Colombia and the USA.
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Bangladeshi publisher Tutul – with whom Margaret Atwood shared her 2016 PEN Pinter Prize – discusses exile, free thinking, and thirty years of the magazine and publisher Shuddhashar.
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So Mayer discusses fascism, cinema, genderqueerness and freedom of expression.
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Read Jay Bernard’s ‘England Street (Reggae fi Linton)’, commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.
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